queenofdenile wrote:I don't think this makes me hate him, but it does make me side-eye him with disgust at this particular decision.

Agreed, I don't hate him because of this, but he definitely should have known better. I'm all for protecting celebrities' privacy, but you can't be a celebrity today, throw a party for other celebrities and expect something like this not to be made public. It's not like the cake was made for some random dinner and someone took a picture of a leftover slice that was in the fridge.

I also find that incredibly tasteless. I can kind of sort of see how it might evolve from a "wouldn't it be funny if..." place. It was a private party but that's the kind of thing frat boys find funny (I'm sure there were Zombie Amy Winehouse costumes running around this year). I think part of the reason it bothers me so much is that NPH isn't someone just having a few friends over. He's a celebrity and it's not beyond the realm of possibility that someone could be invited to the party who knew her.

That is why I said it was an unpopular opinion. I am not saying it wasn't tacky, I am saying I have literally never been to a Halloween party that hasn't had something similarly as tacky/inappropriate or hell in the case of the parties my former boss used to throw much more inappropriate.

queenofdenile wrote:It's tacky whether it was meant to be private or not, but at the same time, I can also acknowledge that what NPH does at his private party is really none of my business.

If only the lives of celebrities - and anyone else, for that matter - were truly private. If celebs aren't tweeting or posting pictures/comments/videos about every minute of their day, someone else is probably doing it for them, whether they want it or not, and then everyone gets to comment. The cake might have been funny within NPH's circle of friends but that's not where it stayed.

I may be the only person on this board who groaned out loud at reading this breaking news. I do think Ricky Gervais can be very funny, and I didn't find offense with most of his jokes the last time he hosted, but I really found him TIRESOME after a while and he seems so smug and full of himself.

Oh no, I'm sure you're not the only one. I'm not sure there's any other figure in pop culture who inspires such polar opposite responses in me. I absolutely hate him at this point, but then I seriously LOVE the UK Office, Extras, the podcast... I wish he would just go away for awhile and try to grow up.

Huh. I was under the impression the powers that be would sooner stick bamboo shoots under their fingernails than have him host *anything* ever again. Well, they can't bitch and complain after the fact this time. They know what they're getting into.

I used to enjoy Ricky Gervais, and now I absolutely loathe him, and he's the worst when he hosts things. Stop trying to pretend that you're so far above everyone in Hollywood, Ricky, you're just an asshole.

Can't stand him. He's one of those comedians who think it's terribly iconoclastic to attack people weaker than him. Yes, in these days of political correctness it's refreshing that there's someone willing to take those disabled people down a peg or two. What an insufferable bastard.

What I hate about his jokes is that he just always conveys such a meanspirited and smug vibe. Jon Stewart can clown people without sounding like he absolutely disdains them, but when Gervais ridicules someone, I get the idea that he honestly looks down on that person. I can laugh at his jokes because he's a clever guy, but in the end, the jokes leave a bad taste in my mouth.

I don't get that whole "Brad Pitt is stupid" thing. Sure, he has a tendency to stare unfocused into the distance sometimes. But he seems perfectly coherent, even occasionally sharp and witty in interviews or dvd commentaries. Yes, he says obnoxious and ignorant stuff sometimes, but so do a lot of other celebrities.

Moreover, he has been making very smart career choices for about two decades now. Yeah, he's attractive, but he's not classical leading man material, IMO he knows that and chooses his projects accordingly. And even if he just has good advisers and listens to them, that still means that he's smart enough to listen to them.

I don't buy that he is either. I remember reading a Vanity Fair feature interview on him a few years ago and some of the people they interviewed, people who worked with him on various projects, not just actors, they said that he was actually quite smart and savvy. At the time, there had been a lot of "Brad Pitt is thick" gossip stories and it was implied that these stories had been either started by or allowed to start by someone who had been very close to him until some time before the interview. It wasn't said outright but reading between the lines, it seemed to hint at Gwyneth Paltrow. I don't know either way but it was interesting.

I also don't think Keanu Reeves is as dim as he allows himself to be portrayed.

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I like Kristen Stewart. I think she's just as passable as all others who are acting in the Twilight movies and lets be honest, she plays empty Bella right on. It cracks me up when I see her criticized for being bland or blank because, come on, that is exactly Bella Swan. KStew is nailing it - and I always get this little sense of her eyerolling at the shittiness of the story under it all. I like how she's different than other starlets her age style wise and how she doesn't really seem to give a shit about being famous. And I think she's pretty, albeit not in a "glam" way, more of a tomboyish manner.

Matinee wrote:I like Kristen Stewart. I think she's just as passable as all others who are acting in the Twilight movies and lets be honest, she plays empty Bella right on. It cracks me up when I see her criticized for being bland or blank because, come on, that is exactly Bella Swan.

I've never watched the movies or read the books, but by internet osmosis, I agree. (Plus, it makes me think of the recent Beavis & Butthead episode where they're watching Twilight and ask if Bella is supposed to be a zombie, hee!)I don't think Brad or Keanu are stupid, and I don't think Keanu is a terrible actor. Also, I still dislike Tom Hanks, just because. I have no good reason to, really, but whenever he shows up somewhere, I want to punch something.(See also Matlin, Marlee.)

I somewhat liked KStew for a long time, and I still think she makes Bella tolerable (when she's straight-up hateful in the books), and I don't really care that she doesn't smile or play the fame game the way a lot of starlets do, but when she gave that interview and talked about how all of her teachers "let her down," she lost me. Not entirely, but I don't feel the need to defend her anymore.

I haven't seen much of the Twilight movies, but whenever I see people bagging on the main actors for being "terrible" I get a little defensive, because I have read all the books and they are giving accurate portrayals of what is going on in there. Maybe if Stephenie Meyer weren't so intensely involved in the movies to make sure her ~vision~ was realized they could have injected a little more life into their performances, but that's not how things shook out. I'm not trying to say that these kids are going to be Oscar winners some day or anything, but I don't think a lot of their critics realize that it's also challenging to be such black holes of charisma for an entire movie, let alone 5.

QueenSix wrote:I also don't think Keanu Reeves is as dim as he allows himself to be portrayed.

I don't know that this is an unpopular opinion amongst us snarkers. I don't think he's an idiot, either. I remember someone linking to a GQ (I think) interview with him at the old board, where he and the interviewer went to a bookshop, and Keanu gave the guy a bunch of really good recommendations. You can't be as well read as he apparently is and not have at least a little bit of something going on between your ears.

queenofdenile wrote:I somewhat liked KStew for a long time, and I still think she makes Bella tolerable (when she's straight-up hateful in the books), and I don't really care that she doesn't smile or play the fame game the way a lot of starlets do, but when she gave that interview and talked about how all of her teachers "let her down," she lost me. Not entirely, but I don't feel the need to defend her anymore.

Oh... that's unfortunate... still, I'll maintain that she a good actor who is just playing the character as written (if not better than, as you point out)!

I guess it's unpopular to still love Ricky Gervais. I think he's hysterical and actually find his self-deprecating act brilliant because I think he pulls it off so well. Also I will FOREVER love him for this alone.

caltrask55 wrote:I guess it's unpopular to still love Ricky Gervais. I think he's hysterical and actually find his self-deprecating act brilliant because I think he pulls it off so well. Also I will FOREVER love him for this alone.

I don't particularly like him, but his bromance with Elmo absolutely cracks me up. When Kevin Clash was on The Daily Show he said that Ricky will randomly call him up to suggest skits they can do together.

caltrask55 wrote:I guess it's unpopular to still love Ricky Gervais. I think he's hysterical and actually find his self-deprecating act brilliant because I think he pulls it off so well. Also I will FOREVER love him for this alone.

I like Ricky Gervais's self-deprecating humor very much. But lately he seems to have gone from mostly self-deprecating humor to mostly making fun of people in marginalized groups and then claiming to be "edgy" and "ironic" for relying on stereotypes so old that they're fossilized.